Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance, 1968 — section 14

14. Re-employment of retrenched workmen..—Where any number of workmen are retrenched and the employer proposes to take into his employ any person within a period of one year from the date of such retrenchment, he shall give an opportunity to the retrenched workmen belonging to the category concerned, by sending a notice by registered post to their last known addresses to offer themselves for re-employment, and they shall have preference over other persons, each having priority according to the length of his service, under the employer 1[:] 2 [Provided that, in the case of a seasonal factory within the meaning of section 4 of the Factories Act, 1934 (XXV of 1934), a workman who was retrenched in one season and reports for duty within ten days of the resumption of work in the factory in the immediately following season 3[shall be given preference for employment] by the employer 4[:]] 5 [Provided further that, in the case of such a seasonal factory, the employer may by sending notice by registered post to the last known address of a workman who was retrenched in one season require him to report on a day specified in the notice, not being earlier than ten days before resumption of work in such factory, and if such workman so reports he shall be given preference for employment and paid full wages from the day he reports.] 6